{"id":4788,"date":"2024-03-27T14:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2024-03-27T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:27:06","slug":"the-battle-for-the-soul-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=4788","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for the Soul of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author<\/b>: James M. Dorsey<\/span><\/p>

Affiliation<\/b>: Middle East Institute<\/span><\/p>

Publisher<\/b>: Hudson Institute<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place<\/b>: October 28, 2020\/ Washington, DC<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature<\/b>: Analysis<\/span><\/p>

Word count<\/b>: 7200<\/span><\/p>

Link<\/b>: https:\/\/www.hudson.org\/research\/16463-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-islam<\/a><\/span><\/p>

Keywords<\/b>: <\/span>Islam, Middle East, Arabs, Turkey, Khilafat, Ottoman Sultanate, Islamic Revolution.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Brief<\/b>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>

An essential read on intra-Muslim world issues, this piece navigates the rise of new players on the Muslim world map and how these states \u201clargely (care) about enhancing countries\u2019 global and regional influence.\u201d The author draws a divided map of Muslim-majority states, pitching one against another from Asia to Middle East, namely Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Indonesia, Iran, UAE, and Morocco. The author believes the \u201clines dividing the state and religion have become ever more blurred, particularly in more autocratic countries.\u201d Interestingly, the author omits Pakistan in his categorization of Muslim states exerting regional influence. The article also explains how the Western powers pitched Saudi Arabia\u2019s \u201cconservative\u201d Islam against Communism, but which later also used hard power like mirroring Iran\u2019s \u201ccoupling of religious soft power with hard power through the selective use of proxies in various Middle Eastern countries.\u201d The author notes that the first two phases after the fall of the Ottoman State came with \u201clargely uncontested Saudi religious soft power campaign\u201d and the emergence of revolutionary Iran.<\/span><\/p>

The third and current phase, however, has further \u201cblurred the dividing lines between purely religious and cultural soft power, nationalism, and the struggle within Muslim societies over values, including various freedoms, rights, and preferred political systems.\u201d According to the author, the \u201cthird phase of the battle for the soul of Islam\u201d has expanded outside Saudi Arabia and Iran, and now includes the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Qatar, and Indonesia. Although the author categorizes Indonesia (the world\u2019s third largest democracy) as the \u201codd-man-out\u201d and gives examples of how it has capitulated to GCC influence, he however acknowledges the rise and influence of Nahdlatul Ulama, a \u201cHumanitarian Islam\u201d and\u00a0 the world\u2019s largest Muslim movement. By addressing Islamic concepts that it considers \u201coutdated,\u201d the Nahdlatul Ulama has \u201cemerged as a formidable challenger to powerful state actors in the battle for the soul of Islam,\u201d the author argues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

By: Riyaz ul Khaliq, CIGA non-Resident Research Associate<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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